Demand-side trends include the addition of more than 70 million people to the global population each year, 4 billion people moving up the food chain – consuming more grain-intensive meat, milk, and eggs, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to fuel ethanol distilleries.

Healthcare reform should include free-market, but regulated capitalist solutions to lowering heathcare costs, such as cross-state insurance, more individual involvement in consuming medical services, elimination of government subsidies, etc.. katiec